Thanks Jim for this lovely Wentworth village site, of which I was unaware! I hope it will help others too to know what a lovely village it is. My Smith family seem to have come from Tankersley, when John Smith married Ann Balmforth in 1823 and are listed on the 1841 census and 1851 census, which reveals he was born in 1797 .John died in 1857 - and Ann is listed as a Widow and a launderess on subsequent census records until her death. My great grandfather, one of John's sons, Joseph, lived at Barrow Field Gate, but John and Ann lived at Spitalhouses. I have visited Wentworth on numerous occasions in recent years, as my second cousin still lives in the cottage in the main street where my great grandfather and family went to live about 1891. Pat Smith Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire Quoting Ericthelad@aol.com: > Graham- > For pictures of Wentworth, take a look at > > http://www.wentworthvillage.net/index.shtml > > As well as pictures, this also has an interesting family tree of the > Fitzwilliam family. For older pictures, I can commend (not just because it > includes > photographs of my grandfather and great-grandfather!) the excellent book "The > > Big House and The Little Village" by Roy Young, published by Wentworth Garden > > Centre in March 2000. > > I'm not sure if Hood Hill Lodge still exists as it is some years since I was > > in Wentworth. It was situated at the end of what was called 'The Coach Road' > > which ran from Hague Lane in Wentworth to the Sheffield - Leeds turnpike (now > > the B6135) at Hood Hill. I believe that the lodge was used by the NCB > Opencast > Executive at some stage. The area around the Coach Road and Spitalhouses was > > taken over by them in the 1940's and 1950's and accomodated the screening > plant > for coal taken from the opencast mines in Wentworth Park and around the > village. > > Spitalhouses was a hamlet fairly remote from Wentworth village itself. The > houses were Fitzwilliam houses and hence for workers, or retired workers from > > the Fitzwilliam Estate. > > Jim Sykes > Researching: PEPPER (Wentworth, Wath and the lands between), FROGGATT > (Wentworth), KITCHEN (Wentworth and Brampton), EVANS (Elsecar), CUSWORTH > (Wath and > Elsecar), GARTON (Cheshire and Wentworth), MOUNTAIN (Flockton, Wath and > Greasbrough) and SYKES (Hoyland and Birdwell) > > > ==== ENG-ROTHERHAM Mailing List ==== > Visit ENG-ROTHERHAM archives for past postings: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ENG-ROTHERHAM > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net